PLEASANT CORNER | Champlain Town- ship has dismissed chief administrative officer Jean Thériault, who has held the post for the past five years. Council wants “to go in a new direction at the administrative level,” said Mayor Gary Barton, confirming that Thériault’s departure became effective Monday. Barton has been serving as interim CAO this week but he said Tuesday that an in- terim successor will be named shortly. Thériault succeeded Robert Lefebvre five years ago. He had previously been chief administrative officer in the Town- ship of Leeds and the Thousand Islands from 2006 to 2009 and had served as man- ager of administrative services and treas-

urer of the Township of Tiny, in Midland, from 2000 to 2006. Jean Thériault

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High-speed chase

A high-speed early-morning interprovincial police chase ended in the arrest of a Gren- ville man March 29. At about 2:30 a.m., Hawkesbury OPP officers were conducting a RIDE checkpoint on John Street at the bottom of the Long Sault Bridge in Hawkesbury when they observed a 2002 Chevrolet Impala making a U-turn before the checkpoint and heading back toward Grenville. Officers immediately pursued the vehicle which was driving at dangerous speeds in the village as it tried to escape from police. Constables Pascal Boudreau, Jean-Alexandre Robillard-Cardinal and Jean-Michel Maceus were able to catch up and intercept the fleeing vehicle which stopped on its own at the intersection of Highways 128 and 344. Illicit drugs were found in the vehicle during the search, police say. André St-Germain, 23, was charged with flight from police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, driving a motor vehicle with liquor readily available, driving a commercial motor vehicle without a licence. He was released and is scheduled to appear in court in L’Orignal April 9. Break and enter investigation Constable Yan Faille of the Hawkesbury OPP is investigating a break and enter incident that was reported March 28 at a Kipling Street, Hawkesbury residence. Someone gained access to a backyard shed and stole two large compressors and various tools evaluated at more than $4,000. Anyone with information is asked to contact Faille at 613-632-2729 or 1-888-310-1122. 24 charges In the week of March 24 to 31, Hawkesbury OPP officers responded to 196 occurrences and laid 24 charges. Officers investigated two break and enter incidents and four assaults. Six RIDE initiatives were conducted; one motorist was charged with impaired driving. Impaired driving charge A 34-year-old Hawkesbury man was charged with impaired driving after Constable Pascal Boudreau stopped a 2011 Kia Rio on John Street, Hawkesbury while performing a RIDE checkpoint March 30. Michel Giroux appears in L’Orignal court April 16 to face a charge of driving while his blood alcohol level was above the legal limit. Drug charges Two men face drug charges after officers intercepted a white 2009 Nissan Ver- sa during a RIDE checkpoint on John Street, Hawkesbury March 27 at 3:30 a.m. A quantity of cannabis valued at about $1,300 was seized from the vehicle. The driver, Victor Cabezon, 39, of Kirkland, Québec, and Richard Fallow, 39, of Hawkesbury, were charged with possession of marijuana. Cabezon was also charged with possession of cannabis resin. Both are scheduled to appear in court April 23 in L’Orignal.